AI For Humans: Weekly AI News, Tools & Trends

AI news this week: AI is cracking open all software, from Minecraft inside Red Dead Redemption 2 to a (claimed) Adobe decompile, plus Kevin made EARLABLO (Toe Jam & Earl Meet Diablo).

On today's AI For Humans, Kevin Pereira and Gavin Purcell zoom out on the AI modding explosion, because the bigger story isn't games. AI is getting so good at taking software apart and rebuilding it that pretty soon almost any program might be de facto open source.

This week alone brought God of War in GTA, Minecraft inside Twitter, Black Ops Zombies running in a web browser, a GTA skate mod and a full agent harness living inside Minecraft. We talk about what happens when no app can keep its secrets, and Kevin shows off Earlablo, his AI rebuild of a 1991 Sega classic as a Diablo-style dungeon crawler. It def slaps.

Also: OpenAI published a big batch of new results on open math problems from an internal model, with proofs checked by computer, and we get into why that actually matters for regular people (including what it might mean for the encryption protecting your stuff).

Plus: the Pope weighs in on AI creatives, Ben Affleck gets surprisingly nerdy about AI, Sesame's new voice demo is live (and Gavin had another wild conversation with it), Tavus runs a Turing test, Grok can now search X for free, Nano Banana 2.1 and Claude Haiku 5.5.

// Chapters //

00:00 AI Is Cracking Open All Software

05:45 What AI Now Means For SaaS Businesses

10:05 Call of Duty Black Ops Zombies In Browser & More

14:44 OpenAI's Big Math Drop (And Why It Actually Matters)

18:37 Adobe Decompiled? What Happens When Nothing Is Locked

21:12 Kevin Turned A 1991 Sega Game (Toe Jam & Earl) Into Diablo (Earlablo)

35:49 The Pope Takes On AI Creatives

39:15 Ben Affleck, AI Super Nerd

43:23 Quick Tools: Grok X Search, Nano Banana 2.1 & Claude Haiku 5.5

46:57 Sesame's New Voice Demo

53:11 AI See What You Did There: Desktop Rug & Video Archive Search

// Show Links //

Amjad Masad on AI reverse engineering

https://x.com/amasad/status/2107671204639465961

GTA Skate

https://x.com/TheCanadianGTR/status/2107153060984492110

God of War in GTA

https://x.com/Motion_Viz/status/2107866945764888864

Black Ops Zombies playable in the browser (creator's claim, unverified)

https://x.com/MrTLexify/status/2107937584051875909

OpenAI shares new AI progress in mathematics

https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2107596713791767021

https://openai.com/index/sharing-ai-progress-in-mathematics/

Adobe Suite decompiled

https://x.com/KevinPicchi/status/2107497028494450775

ArtCraft

https://getartcraft.com/apps

The Pope on AI and creatives

https://x.com/Pontifex/status/2105983638147891490

Ben Affleck, AI super nerd

https://x.com/firesidealpha/status/2107562044824359341

Sesame's new voice demo

https://www.sesame.com/

https://x.com/brendaniribe/status/2107555979730485352

Grok can now search the X timeline for free

https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2108015878013161689

Nano Banana 2.1

https://deepmind.google/models/model-cards/nano-banana-2-1/

https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/2107533224453058731

Claude Haiku 5.5

https://x.com/claudeai/status/2107894039626277339

A rug for your computer desktop

https://x.com/terkelg/status/2107540718461886464

Searching through a video archive with AI

https://x.com/azlenelza/status/2107995183237493183

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AI news this week: Claude Opus 5.5 is modding every video game, from Minecraft in Skyrim to Portal in CoD Zombies, plus OpenAI DevDay's Dots & GPT-6.1 Sol.

On today's AI For Humans, Kevin Pereira and Gavin Purcell dig into the wildest week of AI game modding yet. Cheaper, faster coding agents mean people are taking games apart and stitching them back together: Skate 3 skateboarding inside Modern Warfare 2, a Minecraft and Skyrim mashup called SkyCraft, Minecraft and Mario in Dark Souls and even a (claimed) decompile of Sega's Seaman. We explain what's actually happening under the hood (mods vs. decompiles vs. two game engines talking to each other), check out Rehan Sheikh's Universal Modder toolkit and talk about how you can start making your own. The lawyers will def have thoughts.

Also: OpenAI's DevDay brought Dots, always-on agents with their own cloud computers that connect to 4,000+ apps, plus ChatGPT Space, a new $500 a month plan, the Agents and Decisions APIs and GPT-6.1 Sol. Gavin put Sol head to head with Claude Opus 5.5 and, well, Opus won. Google finally announced Gemini 4 with huge benchmark numbers.

Plus: Gavin's agent Fig used Opus 5.5 to make a 27-minute documentary almost entirely on its own (script, AI host, edit and music) with about six hours of his notes. We break down the process, the cost and where it got weird. Then quick hits on Ideogram 4.5, Kling 4.0 and ElevenLabs v4, what came out of the White House AI summit, and in AI See What You Did There: a Spider-Man browser game, a Succession-style AI series and Stallone doing very dangerous stunts.

THE LAWYERS ARE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BOAT.

// Chapters //

00:00 AI Is Modding Every Video Game Right Now

05:32 How AI Game Modding Actually Works with Opus 5.5

13:15 OpenAI DevDay: Dots The Personal AI Assistant (Again)

18:17 ChatGPT Spaces

20:40 GPT-6.1 Sol vs Claude Opus 5.5: Gavin's Test

27:30 Gemini 4 Is Finally Announced (Benchmarks vs Reality)

29:41 Gavin's AI Agent Made A 27-Minute Documentary With Opus 5.5

41:29 Quick Tools: Ideogram 4.5, Kling 4.0 & ElevenLabs v4

43:57 The White House AI Summit & Jensen's "Near Term Pain"

48:43 AI See What You Did There: SpiderBench, AI Succession & Stallone Stunts

// Show Links //

Skate 3 skateboarding inside Modern Warfare 2

https://x.com/chasmmmmmmmmmmm/status/2104349115521888748

Minecraft x Skyrim

https://x.com/chasmmmmmmmmmmm/status/2105046595548967150

How SkyCraft works (Minecraft and Skyrim running side by side)

https://github.com/chasmlol/SkyCraft

Call of Duty Zombies on the web (creator's claim, unverified)

https://x.com/p_e_cooper/status/2104980433972703483

Portal x CoD Zombies

https://x.com/p_e_cooper/status/2105387636131024992

Minecraft and Mario in Dark Souls

https://x.com/Deltaroo3D/status/2105345162771648883

Sega's Seaman decompiled with Astra (creator's claim, unverified)

https://x.com/145k4/status/2105318135104446965

Universal Modder by Rehan Sheikh

https://x.com/rehan_shei/status/2105161487509852622

https://github.com/rehan-remade/universal-modder

OpenAI introduces Dots

https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2104984504133918973

OpenAI DevDay 2026 keynote

https://www.youtube.com/live/Fls_onRviPM

The DevDay demo fail

https://www.youtube.com/live/Fls_onRviPM?t=697

ChatGPT Space

https://chatgpt.com/features/space/

Introducing GPT-6.1 Sol

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-1-sol/

Gavin's GPT-6.1 Sol vs Opus 5.5 test

https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2105053143000359351

Google announces Gemini 4

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-4-argon/

Bloomberg on Gemini 4 inside Google

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-30/google-grapples-with-employee-skepticism-about-new-gemini-model

Gavin's Opus 5.5 documentary

https://youtu.be/cyeTIEy2qus

Ideogram 4.5

https://x.com/ideogram_ai/status/2105327223431737780

Kling 4.0

https://kling.ai/blog/kling40-kling-visual-realism-creative-control-introducing-storytelling

ElevenLabs v4

https://elevenlabs.io/docs/changelog/2026/9/28

The White House AI summit

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trump-host-zuckerberg-anthropics-amodei-other-ai-titans-tuesday-2026-09-29/

Jensen Huang on near term pain

https://youtu.be/HjurAWAr_nY?si=zg58A9WRpswzm10P

SpiderBench: an Opus 5.5 Spider-Man browser game

https://x.com/xikhar/status/2104001664793600012

AI Succession doomer series

https://x.com/greghunkins/status/2105071760538316916

Stallone stunt videos

https://www.reddit.com/r/aivideo/comments/1wqr6ac/a_dangerous_stunt_to_warn_about_the_real_danger/

https://www.reddit.com/r/aivideo/comments/1wquj9y/dangerous_dojo_stunt/

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AI news this week: Claude Opus 5.5 is INSANE and we love it. Faster, cheaper, better. So much for the AI slowdown. Oh and OpenAI's new thing is good too.

On today's AI For Humans, Kevin Pereira and Gavin Purcell go hands on with Claude Opus 5.5, which might be the best model we've ever used (for now). Anthropic says it hits Fable-level performance on most things at about 40% less cost than Opus 5, the writing is clearer, and yes, the five hour usage limits went up and you can now bank your resets. Then we get into what people are already making with it: a guitar store sim, a music-based side-scroller, a Mario Kart benchmark, an underwater exploration game in 3MB, claymation built in Blender, a pop punk single made entirely in code and a lot of very juicy animations.

Also: OpenAI answered with GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna, two new models that are faster and a lot cheaper than what came before. We compare them with Opus 5.5 (robot hands drawing, pelicans on bicycles in Blender), wonder what OpenAI has lined up for DevDay, and talk about Bel, the reported secret model that's beating the math. Oh, and there's a new Grok. Grok 4.7. It's out. (crickets)

Plus: Gavin used Meshy 7.1 to turn a few photos of himself into a rigged, animated 3D model and then built Gavin At Large with his Opus 5.5 agent, a game where a giant Gavin wrecks a lil town. In Actually Useful AI, GPT-6 Astra makes simple motion graphics for a real book trailer. And in AI See What You Did There: Dario vs Sam in a very weird gun fight showdown and what happens when you point Claude at the Moving Image Archive.

AI SLOWDOWN? NEVER HEARD OF HER.

// Chapters //

00:00 Claude Opus 5.5 & GPT-6 Sol: So Much For The AI Slowdown

03:35 Claude Opus 5.5: Fable-Level Performance For Less (And Bigger Usage Limits)

11:45 Opus 5.5 Is Crazy Good At Making Games

18:02 Opus 5.5 Creative Use Cases: Claymation, Animation, & Education Tools

23:28 GPT-6 Sol & Luna: OpenAI's Faster, Cheaper Models

27:47 What's Next? OpenAI's Rumored Bel Model & Grok 4.7

33:22 Giant Gavin: Turning Myself Into A 3D Model With Meshy 7.1

39:03 Actually Useful AI: GPT-6 Astra Makes Motion Graphics

41:35 AI See What You Did There: Dario vs Sam & The Moving Image Archive

// Show Links //

Introducing Claude Opus 5.5

https://www.anthropic.com/claude-opus-5-5

Opus 5.5 guitar store sim

https://x.com/bijanbowen/status/2102532400353829356

https://x.com/bijanbowen/status/2102647714857222312

Opus 5.5 music-based side-scroller

https://x.com/riku720720/status/2102547249834385584

Opus 5.5 on the Mario Kart bench

https://x.com/sawyerhood/status/2102550264914038834

Underwater exploration game in 3MB

https://claude.ai/artifact/ReCBQGZ4EirKSiEmT8XXfs

Card pack opening (made with a very simple prompt)

https://claude.ai/artifact/FiowCxgcuqAvjL9ANRYjQU

Claude juice animation

https://claude.ai/share/33a38af0-97cd-4d4b-a9af-ae065de70436

Using Blender to make claymation animation

https://x.com/JacobMolBio/status/2102569129026916389

Full blown animations

https://x.com/other__reality/status/2102514581684052169

A pop punk single made entirely in code

https://x.com/aj_dev_smith/status/2102575577563570450

Interactive lens lab

https://x.com/RyanSael/status/2102591147927654847

Introducing GPT-6 Sol and Luna

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-sol-and-luna/

Robot hand drawing comparison

https://x.com/dimentary/status/2102539444834402314

Pelican on a bicycle in Blender test

https://x.com/atomic_chat_hq/status/2102492834485895265

Grok 4.7

https://x.com/SpaceXAI/status/2102069815225586149

Meshy 7.1 multi-image to 3D on fal

https://fal.ai/models/meshy/v7.1/multi-image-to-3d

Gavin At Large (the Giant Gavin game)

https://gavin-at-large.vercel.app

Kim's New Book: Write a Novel in 100 Days

https://kimpurcell.com/

Dario vs Sam weird gun fight showdown

https://x.com/Xanderwow_A/status/2101800791795274106

Moving Image Archive

https://x.com/covacut/status/2100990018391265297

Gavin's Claude makes a video from the archive (Fable 5.1)

https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2101818839512281116

And the updated version with Opus 5.5

https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2102632595792199944

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AI news this week: Personal AI agents like Instinct and Meta's Muse now book your repairs, make your calls and talk to other agents. We let one into our life.

On today's AI For Humans, Kevin Pereira and Gavin Purcell dig into the week personal AI agents got real. Gavin has been living with Instinct, the viral assistant that just raised a ton on money while still in private testing. It works over text, WhatsApp and now actual phone calls, people are using it to schedule dryer repairs, and this week a stranger's Instinct asked to talk to Gavin's Instinct. It also handed out Kevin's personal info by default because it was a lil over-eager, which is where Kevin's finger wag (and the terms of service) come in. Then there's Muse, Meta's new personal agent that lives in its own app and inside WhatsApp, how it's different from OpenClaw, and the rumors that OpenAI's version is close.

Also: everyone suddenly wants to slow AI down. Dario Amodei published "We Must Pace the Frontier," Sam Altman said he agrees, Demis Hassabis said it points to the right path, Elon Musk said "Dario is right," and the White House is not on board. We try to make sense of why this is happening now (recursive self-improvement, the Hugging Face incident, and Sam talking up an unreleased model that's crushing math) and what it means for you. OpenAI also shared a new framework for publicly reporting model misalignment.

Plus: Jev from TypeSafe AI is a new sort of model. It's not a chatbot. It makes fast typed decisions in 70 to 500 milliseconds, which means it can play Doom and Mario in real time, trade stocks, fly a drone and power a lil game called Jev Hero. And in AI See What You Did There: Claude Opus 5 makes really cool JavaScript animations (Gavin tried it too), the AI Seinfeld videos are getting good, and MiniMax nails micro expressions.

MY AI WILL CALL YOUR AI. PLEASE DON'T GIVE IT MY SOCIAL.

// Show Links //

Instinct

https://instinct.com/

TechCrunch: Instinct's AI assistant is raising privacy and security concerns

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/24/instincts-powerful-ai-assistant-is-raising-privacy-and-security-concerns/

Gavin's Instinct experience, continued

https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2100016746631721459

Instinct scheduled a dryer repair

https://x.com/eliweisss/status/2098918455957189107

Instinct can now handle phone calls

https://x.com/noahrshinn/status/2100262985491231101

Meta introduces Muse, its personal AI agent

https://about.fb.com/news/2026/09/introducing-muse-personal-ai-agent/

Sam Altman's tease (OpenAI's version is a rumor, not confirmed)

https://x.com/sama/status/2100351958167220547

Sam Altman on the unreleased model beating all the math

https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/2100144714251198466

Dario Amodei: We Must Pace the Frontier

https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier

Sam Altman agrees with Dario

https://x.com/sama/status/2098811563415150910

Demis Hassabis on pacing the frontier

https://x.com/demishassabis/status/2098909516582490602

Elon Musk at the All-In Summit

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2099737765260763348

OpenAI's framework for reporting model misalignment

https://openai.com/index/model-misalignment-reporting-framework/

Kim's New Book: Write a Novel in 100 Days

https://kimpurcell.com/

TypeSafe AI introduces System One models and Jev

https://typesafe.ai/blog/introducing-system-one-models-and-jev

https://x.com/CompleteSkeptic/status/2099925682726002904

Jev plays Doom in real time

https://x.com/CompleteSkeptic/status/2099925687465570372

Jev plays Mario

https://x.com/faadilhshaik/status/2100086301894881578

Jev as a real-time stock buyer and seller

https://x.com/jarrodwatts/status/2100356151468585346

Jev organizing and filtering types of words (with demo)

https://x.com/stevekrouse/status/2100287368221659289

https://typesafe-demo.val.run/

Jev drone traversal

https://x.com/EGafni/status/2100386169100149229

Jev Hero

https://jevhero.val.run/

Pause Gate, told through fruit

https://x.com/charliebcurran/status/2099981045655556370

Claudio of Anthropos

https://x.com/arikuschnir/status/2100555376856830381

Claude Opus 5 makes really cool JavaScript animations

https://x.com/kevin_t_ngo/status/2099858454043349342

Gavin's Claude takes a shot at it

https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2100404534514536955

The AI Seinfeld videos are getting good

https://x.com/rydudebro/status/2100055497751646320

MiniMax micro expressions

https://x.com/SD_Tutorial/status/2097966014239781051

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AI news this week: GPT-6 Astra is here and it does everything. We spent a week inside it (Blender, GarageBand, a full live game) to find out what it's actually great at.

On today's AI For Humans, Kevin Pereira and Gavin Purcell go hands-on with OpenAI's Astra, aka GPT-6, and it's real good (and real expensive). The headline for us is computer use, and specifically Blender: Astra builds 3D scenes from a sentence, and the internet is already making Backrooms worlds, a hyper-real Palace of Fine Arts, and the Billie Jean dance. Gavin ran his own experiments, including a Parappa The Rapper style animation and a head-to-head with GPT 5.6. Plus: Astra identifying sounds from spectrograms, driving MS Paint and Canva, editing a full project, playing Zork as a walk-around game, remaking Paperboy in 3D, editing Super Nintendo games in real time, making music in Logic, and a League of Legends "cease and desist edition" that raises the big question of how copyright even keeps up with this.

Also: the OpenAI Navier-Stokes math drama. NYU's Tristan Buckmaster and Anthropic's Levent Alpöge used AI to make a real advance on a 200-year-old fluid problem, and then, according to Buckmaster, OpenAI raced in with a 100-page proof of the same route and things got very ugly over credit. When your AI collaborator's lab can see what you're close to, who owns the idea?

Plus: Gavin built King of the Prompts, a live competitive prompting game made with Astra and MiniMax H3 Max, and he'll tell you what it is, why he made it, and what it costs to run. And an AI See What You Did There with Skyrim: Senior Living, AI Denzel Washington delivering maybe the best AI video ever made, and a fruit fly brain that learned the YMCA (and lost the ability to love).

WE'RE DEEP IN THE ASTRA JUICE. SEND HELP (AND TOKENS).

// Chapters //

00:00 GPT-6 Astra Is Real Good (And Real Expensive)

03:35 What Astra Is Actually Good At: Computer Use

06:15 Astra In Blender: Backrooms, Palace Of Fine Arts & Billie Jean

10:57 Astra Remakes Paperboy & Will People Play AI Games?

16:20 Astra Makes Music In Logic (And Simulates A DJ Stage)

19:40 Kevin's Existential Crisis Of App Release

22:50 The OpenAI Navier-Stokes Drama: Who Owns An AI-Assisted Proof?

27:59 Gavin Built King Of The Prompts (Astra + MiniMax H3 Max)

35:15 AI See What You Did There: Skyrim Senior Living, AI Denzel & FLY-M-C-A

// Show Links //

OpenAI introduces GPT-6 Astra

https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra/

Duncan Trussell's Backrooms in Blender (the whole thread is great)

https://x.com/duncantrussell/status/2096003511104508411

Hyper-realistic Palace of Fine Arts in Blender

https://x.com/sharifshameem/status/2095653641164329143

Recreating the Billie Jean dance in Blender

https://x.com/flavioAd/status/2097067419248296389

Gavin's Parappa The Rapper style animation

https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2096454789328752682

Gavin: Astra builds a scene from scratch vs GPT 5.6

https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2096234912441626724

Astra identifies sounds from spectrograms

https://x.com/maxxrubin_/status/2096892510241268094

Astra in MS Paint (and Canva)

https://x.com/The_Alex/status/2096776453283360803

Zork as a walk-around game

https://x.com/emollick/status/2096047660662722620

Paperboy 3D remake

https://x.com/builtbysketch/status/2096515959469072630

League of Legends: Cease and Desist Edition

https://x.com/konstiwohlwend/status/2097164513527357608

Matt Shumer's AI agent Unreal project

https://x.com/mattshumer_/status/2096034353344139519

SuperAstra: edit Super Nintendo games in real time

https://x.com/scottastevenson/status/2096972908828426747

https://github.com/ScottStevenson/SuperAstra

Astra connected to Logic to make music

https://x.com/MarioSaputra/status/2096908100871836123

DJ stage simulations

https://x.com/cerspense/status/2096960824535572498

The OpenAI Navier-Stokes credit drama (Buckmaster's account)

https://x.com/cguth_7/status/2097206622602854882

King of the Prompts (Gavin's new game)

https://kingoftheprompts.com/

Skyrim: Senior Living

https://x.com/GORMTHEOLD25/status/2096994048758137013

AI Denzel Washington on AI slop

https://x.com/Nekodificador/status/2096682353011630237

FLY-M-C-A: a fruit fly brain learns the YMCA

https://x.com/dhruvbhatia0/status/2097047404239581265

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AI news this week: MiniMax H3 Max on Fal is generating video faster than you can watch it, powering never-ending real-time channels (Fal Live, Levels.io's Infinite Slop, Reactor) and we're already breaking it..

On today's AI For Humans, Kevin Pereira and Gavin Purcell go hands-on with what real-time video actually makes possible. Gavin took an open-source interactive game demo, some Fal credits, and a POV dating sim and turned it into something very weird, and we'll show you what worked, what broke, and what it cost. Plus Runway's new Solaris model generates entire interfaces on the fly, and someone built a chatbot running at 14,000 tokens a second.

Also: Sam Altman is out preaching about OpenAI's new Astra model, which may drop this week, and the leaks are leakin'.

Plus: Gavin handed his personal data to three different AI agents, including hot new startup Instinct, which found him a weird concert and a list of podcast bookings (and we may have a few invite codes to give away). Codex mass-edits a Google Calendar and Kevin finally plays the custom-trained MiniMax Music LoRA you asked for (all three of you). And an AI See What You Did There with The Office in Claudish, famous people falling on each other, and Jenny Krakovsky's feature film finished in 50 days.

THE SLOP-AGGEDON IS UPON US. TURN YOUR AIRPODS UP TO 11.

// Show Links //

MiniMax H3 MAX Free Gen Page

https://fal.ai/tools/minimax-h3-max

Gavin's MiniMax H3 Max real-time test (it's very fast)

https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2093098167906758734?s=20

Gavin's follow-up: the toms

https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2093746610849403017?s=20

Fal Live, two never-ending channels

https://fal.live/chaos

Levels.io's Infinite Slop

http://levels.io/infinite-slop

Glitch platform

https://x.com/thefirst_ad/status/2094442316086039004?s=20

Reactor

https://live.reactor.inc/

H3 Max now supports video references

https://x.com/fal/status/2094527664040124764?s=20

Interactive games with H3 Max (the GitHub Gavin started from)

https://x.com/BlendiByl/status/2094337649859523015

Gorgeous website mockup made with H3 (prompt included)

https://x.com/ShamsAmin56/status/2093710509858328605?s=20

Runway Solaris, a model for generated interfaces

https://runway.com/news/research/introducing-solaris

OpenAI Astra samples (supposedly)

https://x.com/chetaslua/status/2094472807908569356?s=20

https://x.com/lyraxana/status/2094600793789694346?s=20

https://x.com/GaricaRosen6779/status/2094727306766111126?s=20

https://x.com/pankajkumar_dev/status/2094399865971450286?s=20

Astra makes Terraria

https://x.com/alexgetmancom/status/2094762443310272735?s=20

Omarchy AI Operating System

https://omarchy.org/

Instinct: The AI Agent Messaging System

https://app.instinct.co/login

PRE-ORDER KIM PURCELL'S BOOK FOR YOU OR YOUR LOVED ONES

https://kimpurcell.com/books/write-a-novel-in-100-days

The concert Instinct found for Gavin

https://tabularasa.itm.studio/m/tabula-rasa-presents-ramonpang

The Office but everyone speaks Claudish

https://x.com/venturetwins/status/2094536157686387114?s=20

Famous people punch each other and fall down

https://x.com/sadlemonjuice/status/2094017087484092810?s=20

Jenny Krakovsky finished her feature film in 50 days

https://x.com/jennykrakovsky/status/2094394793451200630?s=20

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AI news this week: a mystery AI called 0x Alpha appeared out of nowhere. It's completely free (for now), it's really good at coding, nobody will say who made it. So obviously we tested it.

On today's AI For Humans, Kevin Pereira and Gavin Purcell dig into where 0x Alpha might have come from, the continual learning conspiracy theories, and exactly how you can try it yourself right now for free. Then Gavin spends fifty hard earned Patreon dollars testing MiniMax H3 Max, the supposedly super fast new AI video model from Fal, and... look, we'll just tell you what happened.

Also: the World Humanoid Robot Games happened in Beijing, and it was the greatest event in AI For Humans history. A robot sprinter beat Usain Bolt's 100m time, robots set high jump and long jump records, and a whole lot of other robots fell down in ways that will make you feel much better about the future.

Plus: Mr. Beast quietly goes back to AI thumbnails, Dr. Dre has thoughts about AI and creativity, Delta wants AI to set your ticket price, someone seeded a fake product to the top of ChatGPT's recommendations, and Apple Messages may be blocking ChatGPT. And an AI See What You Did There with week four of the fishing game built entirely with AI and all of San Francisco as a playable video game.

NOBODY MADE IT. EVERYBODY'S TESTING IT. WE'D LIKE TO EAT SOME WORMS.

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0x Alpha, the mystery model free on OpenRouter

https://openrouter.ai/stealth/ox-alpha

https://x.com/opencode/status/2090544355824038300?s=20

Rumors 0x Alpha is "continually learning" (and the doubters)

https://x.com/Bhavani_00007/status/2091936998730940699?s=20

The continual learning "conspiracy"

https://x.com/Hesamation/status/2092157700608053751?s=20

https://x.com/TimJayas/status/2091779605921460563?s=20

Gavin's Claude Code called 0x Alpha cocky

https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2092106801638760591?s=20

MiniMax H3 Max, post-trained by Fal

https://x.com/gorkem/status/2091945568411255288?s=20

The H3 Max promise

https://x.com/gokayfem/status/2091991790219841875?s=20

Magnific's MiniMax H3 Max promo

https://x.com/magnific/status/2091922612989706432?s=20

Free two weeks of MiniMax H3

https://x.com/MiniMax_AI/status/2091948930124947941?s=20

Ink/smoke graphic prompt to try

https://x.com/techhalla/status/2091483350934397091?s=20

Convert 16x9 to 9x16 prompts

https://x.com/Framer_X/status/2091964772656799810?s=20

Create sprites & animations for games

https://x.com/andrew_n_carr/status/2091560238558429560?s=20

A robot sprinter beat Usain Bolt's 100m time

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/china-robot-usain-bolt-sprint-run-record-faster/

https://x.com/EHuanglu/status/2091213372717179143?s=20

Did robots discover a new running method?

https://x.com/ErenChenAI/status/2091714982572409241?s=20

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202608/1368875.shtml?ref=explainx

Standing high jump record

https://x.com/RT_com/status/2091204407954178459

Long jump record

https://x.com/ViralRushX/status/2091811768364605512?s=20

Weightlifting fails

https://x.com/WHRGFUN/status/2091897948787372368?s=20

Obstacle course fails

https://x.com/WHRGFUN/status/2092011943594737838?s=20

https://x.com/clankrmedia/status/2091862394146312291?s=20

Faceplant off the box

https://x.com/takumi_k_jpn/status/2091796599924220077?s=20

Robot dance fail

https://x.com/pianhangx/status/2091934123019637157?s=20

Gavin's robot tennis fail video

https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2091366474984390872?s=20

Mr. Beast back to AI thumbnails (sorta)

https://x.com/mws/status/2091631742411022670?s=20

Dr. Dre on AI

https://x.com/Variety/status/2091515812087480538?s=20

Delta to use AI for dynamic pricing

https://x.com/HedgieMarkets/status/2090855841050120512?s=20

Week 4 of the fishing game made entirely with AI

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1vxdnw6/week_4_of_making_my_fishing_game_entirely_with_ai/

All of San Francisco as a video game

https://x.com/cdngdev/status/2091909073038082139?s=20

https://sf.thijs.gg

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AI news this week: We're changing AI For Humans. Not ending it, despite what the first two minutes of this video would have you believe. Kevin wanted a memorial service.

On today's AI For Humans, Kevin Pereira and Gavin Purcell take a beat to talk about what three years of covering AI every single week has actually been like, why the whole thing got so weird, and what we want this show to be from here. Short version: less breaking news, more of us actually using this stuff and showing you what's worth your time. We are not going to be the show that covers lab drama or tells you the world is ending. Plenty of people have that handled.

Also: we're going back to weekly, with the freedom to pop up a second time when something big happens or when we want to try a dumb experiment. And Will.i.am has invented a new file format, which is a sentence we did not expect to type in 2026.

Plus: RobotWatch is stacked. Two thousand humanoid robots descend on Beijing for the World Humanoid Robot Games, a Unitree "Superman" robot jumps considerably too far, a one year running comparison shows how fast this is all moving, and Claude gets put in charge of a robot controlled car. Then AI See What You Did There (And How They Did It) with Techhalla's MiniMax H3 paper artcraft prompt, a Cobra Commander rickroll, and an AI playing Age of Empires 2.

And before we go, we check in with our original co-host Gash to see if he's even possible anymore.

THREE YEARS IN AND THE ROBOTS STILL RUN INTO WALLS. SO DO WE.

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Gavin's tweet about burning out on covering this stuff

https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2087927136778907885?s=20

The robot that runs incredibly fast and then directly into a wall

https://x.com/ErenChenAI/status/2089411799003111634?s=20

Will.i.am's new file format

https://x.com/KeziahMallam/status/2089375815498695102?s=20

Robot army preparing for the World Humanoid Robot Games

https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2089761213957947482?s=20

Beijing to host games featuring more than 2,000 humanoid robots (Aug 22 to 26)

https://caliber.az/en/post/beijing-to-host-games-featuring-more-than-2-000-humanoid-robots

Unitree "Superman" robot jumping TOO far

https://youtu.be/O7OkiZfIlS4?si=0beq9oHc_0KIuVbq

One year robot running comparison

https://x.com/XH_Lee23/status/2090029122055786896?s=20

Claude robot controlled car

https://x.com/Hesamation/status/2090088199557157075?s=20

Techhalla's MiniMax H3 paper artcraft video prompt

https://x.com/techhalla/status/2089267788896412146?s=20

Cobra Commander MiniMax H3 rickroll

https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1vs95w7/gi_joe_commander_roll_minimax_h3/

AI plays Age of Empires 2

https://youtu.be/ZBdAe3ZwKds?si=PsFJIFMS2j4lYXXo

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AI news this week: Mark Zuckerberg says superintelligence is coming and Meta wants to build it for everyone. Meanwhile, a new Annenberg survey shows opposition to AI data centers jumped 12 percent in just four months. So... do people even want this?

On today's AI For Humans, Kevin Pereira and Gavin Purcell dig into the widening gap between the people building AI and the people living next to it. Anthropic makes real progress on the Riemann Hypothesis, one of the hardest math problems in the world, apparently because Claude was told "good job champ, keep going." And OpenAI's little agents broke out of their sandbox, with one hacking its way into a gym. It's a weird time for AI.

Also: Anthropic leans into health & biology research, Claude starts watermarking AI generated content, Apple eyes Chinese memory chips amid the supply crunch, and OpenAI delays Astra for "cybersecurity" reasons.

Plus: Seedance 2.5 makes Gavin the face of Prada, a two minute mini-movie made entirely on local hardware with MiniMax H3, Suno cuts a deal with the music industry, Spotify says AI personas won't get recommended, and a fresh Slop-Trough with Cursed Slop, The Archive Inbetween & Mario 64: War on Terror.

THE ROBOTS ARE GETTING SMARTER. THE HUMANS ARE GETTING SUSPICIOUS.

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Zuck says superintelligence is for everyone

https://www.meta.com/thefutureisforeveryone/

Open weights on Muse Spark coming

https://x.com/finkd/status/2086755195535413696?s=20

Data center opposition rose 12% over four months (Annenberg survey)

https://www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/opposition-to-local-data-centers-rises-sharply-annenberg-survey-finds/

Anthropic leans into health & biology

https://x.com/AndrewCurran_/status/2087025539114750168?s=20

How Claude marks AI generated content

https://support.claude.com/en/articles/16266773-how-claude-marks-ai-generated-content

Anthropic makes progress on the Riemann Hypothesis

https://www.anthropic.com/research/riemann-zeta

"Keep going, believe in yourself"

https://x.com/NickADobos/status/2086926299927552061?s=20

Apple reportedly testing Chinese memory chips

https://gizmodo.com/apple-reportedly-testing-controversial-chinese-chips-as-memory-supply-crunch-intensifies-2000796483

OpenAI's Astra delayed due to "cybersecurity"

https://x.com/sama/status/2085862292311396515?s=20

OpenClaw hacked into a gym

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/10/tech-industry-is-buzzing-after-a-claude-agent-hacked-into-a-gym/

Seedance 2.5's new type of prompting

https://bytedance.larkoffice.com/docx/A88jd0B47oAd8zxWp5ycZFMfnxh

Gavin as the face of Prada

https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2085712203446149173?s=20

Single shot flipping across multiple scenes

https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2086097266390221187?s=20

Single shot balloon POV into space

https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2087004434207498416?s=20

Gavin's two minute local MiniMax H3 mini-movie

https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2087243349338329561?s=20

FAL's Realism LORA

https://x.com/fal/status/2086883706891808867?s=20

MiniMax H3 video references

https://x.com/toyxyz3/status/2086443622262820904?s=20

https://x.com/LikeToasters/status/2086831194780360979?s=20

Suno's new models "in partnership with the music industry"

https://suno.com/blog/suno-updates-tos

Suno on building the future of music responsibly

https://suno.com/blog/building-the-future-of-music-responsibly

Fenix Flexin says "I never denied using AI"

https://www.xxlmag.com/fenix-flexin-admits-rubberz-ai/

Spotify's AI personas won't get recommended

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/11/spotify-will-label-ai-persona-profiles-and-exclude-their-music-from-recommendations/

Gavin's Fig AI video essay: The Optimistic Case for AI (from an AI)

https://youtu.be/efUqvbmuweU?si=AWlp5plnjJ0gVaia\

Cursed Slop

https://cursedslop.com/

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AI news this week: the AI video renaissance is HERE. Seedance 2.5 is out for everyone, Minimax H3 (Hailuo) is basically an uncensored Sora 2 you can run on local hardware, Wan 3.0 turns your documents into video, and Flux 3 is the only non-Chinese model anywhere near the frontier.

\Kevin's on vacation, so on today's AI For Humans, Gavin Purcell is joined by AI video expert Tim Simmons from the excellent YouTube channel Theoretically Media. Together they break down which of the new models is actually best, the basics of how to use them, exactly how good local AI video has gotten, and what it means that nearly all of these models are Chinese.

Also: Walter White meets Joey, AI Kramer, Family Guy prompts, The Office reimagined, and a museum for the ancient AI videos of two years ago.

Plus: Tim's Higgsfield terms-of-service deep dive, OpenAI reportedly targeting an "ASTRA" aka GPT-6 release for NEXT WEEK, Jeff Dean leaves Google after 27 years as Demis Hassabis steps up, and an AI See What You Did There: AI Filmmakers Edition.

WE HAVE SORA AT HOME NOW. HOLLYWOOD, YOU GOOD?

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Subscribe to Tim's channel, Theoretically Media

https://www.youtube.com/@TheoreticallyMedia

Seedance 2.5 is here for everyone

https://x.com/capcutapp/status/2085355533943357650?s=20

Tim's short film "Death Walks Into A Bar"

https://youtu.be/4wFBA9-KyzY?si=2E1cdKiiGYe1d7pu

Minimax H3 (Hailuo): basically an uncensored open source local Sora 2

https://www.minimax.io/blog/minimax-h3

AI Warper's Family Guy "AI Prompt"

https://x.com/AIWarper/status/2084445445372477530?s=20

Walter White meets Joey

https://www.reddit.com/r/aivideo/comments/1vfu2dt/oh_this_is_funh3/

Here's Kramer (Seinfeld prompt)

https://x.com/techprofits/status/2085118937738391830?s=20

AI Film History museum by Rich Klien

https://aifilmhistory.org/

The Office example

https://x.com/VelvetRender87/status/2084390557334335837?s=20

Wan 3.0: turns docs, sheets, decks and webpages into video

https://x.com/Alibaba_Wan/status/2085339761284104529?s=20

https://x.com/Alibaba_Wan/status/2085339982714257453?s=20

Flux 3 from Black Forest Labs

https://bfl.ai/blog/flux-3

Tim's Higgsfield TOS video

https://youtu.be/7vGp40qEV4s?si=To-ih5eLpqWWnKPz

OpenAI targeting "ASTRA" aka GPT-6 release for next week

https://x.com/synthwavedd/status/2085365276640702915?s=20

Jeff Dean leaves Google after 27 years & Demis steps up

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/05/google-chief-scientist-jeff-dean-leaving-company-after-27-years.html

Kavan The Kid's latest

https://youtu.be/tU5UUc1d0_A?si=j3KNGgJNDX6-L8yG

Dave Clark's found footage Seedance 2.5 short

https://x.com/Diesol/status/2084547129188712589?s=20

Demon Flying Fox's Odyssey

https://youtu.be/ky-2PL6G3aI?si=C73wRZG-Bfd97vSa

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